9. SPEOTYTO. 143 



Noctiia cuaieularia, Darwin, Joum. Nat. Beagle, p. 14.5; D'Orb. Voy. 



Am. Mer. Zool. p. 128 ; Bunn. Th. Bras. ii. p. 440; id. La PI. Eds. 



ii. p. 138; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Strides, p. 30; id. Revue Accipitr. 



p. 27. 

 Otus cunicularia, Cuv. lii'f/ne An. 1820, p. 341. 

 Siirnia cuniciilaria, Bp. Oss. B. A. Cuv. p. 50. 



Noctua iiriicurea, Less. Traits, p. 103 ; Tschudi, Faun. Peruan. p. 116. 

 Nyctipetes cunicularia, Sivains. Clnssif. B. ii. p. 218. 

 Athene cunicularia, Bp. Comp. Lid B. Eur. et N. Am. p. G; id. 



fonsp. i. p. 38 ; Barw. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 31 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 35 ; Cass. Cat. Strigidce Philad. 3Ius. p. 15 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 100; Baird in Cooper B. Calif, p. 437; Pelz. Orn. Bras, pp 9, 



2m;Gray,Hand-l.B.i.^.4;Z.' ^^ ' 



Athene doniinicensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 38 • 

 ^ Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 1(31 ; Gray, Handel. B. i. p. 43. ' 



Noctua doniinicensis, Tschudi, Faun. Peruan. p. 115. 

 Athene socialis, Gatnb. Pr. Phil. Acad. iii. p. 47. 

 Pholeoptynx cunicularia, Kaiip, Isis, 1848, p. 709; id. Contr Om 



1852, p. 106 ; id. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 211 ; Scl. (^ Salv. Komencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 117. 

 Athene hypugaea, Woodh. in Sitgr. Exp. Zuni Sf Color. Rivers, p. 62 • 



Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 78 ; Cass. Cat. Strigidce Philad. Mus 



p. 15 ; id. B. Calif. S^ Texas, p. 118 ; id. B. N. Am. p. 59 ; Blakist. 



Ibis, 1803, p. 50 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 43. 

 Pholeoptynx hypogfea, Salvin, Ibis, 1860, p. 401. 

 Spheotyto cunicularia, var. grallaria, liidgw. K. Am. B. p. 80. 

 Spheotyto cunicularia, yar. hypogaea, Bi'dc/w. in Coues's Key p 208 • 



id. N. Am. B. p. 90 ; Couel, B. N. West, p. 323. ' 



Spheotyto cunicularia, yar. cunicularia, Ridyw. I. c. p. 90 ; Cmies I. c. 



Adult. General colour sandy brown, the head distinctly marked 

 with oval streaks of buflfy whitish, some of the feathers also trans- 

 versely barred with the same ; hind neck more mottled with whitish, 

 the feathers having a broad subterminal bar of this colour ; back 

 mottled with white spots and bars on all the feathers, the latter 

 being often concealed and of a sandy buff colour ; scapulars broadly 

 barred across with white ; wing-coverts sandy brown, a little darker 

 than the back, spotted with white, the greater and median coverts 

 with a large spot of white near the tip of the outer web, all this 

 series of coverts being also barred with sandy buff ; primary-coverts 

 brown, barred with sandy buff; quills brown, tipped with whitish 

 and barred with sandy brown, broadly on the inner web, the outer 

 web notched with huffy whitish, especially the secondaries ; tail- 

 feathers brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with five other 

 bands of sandy buff, inclining to whitish on the centre feathers, the 

 bars with a conterminous shade of brown both above and below ; 

 lores and an indistinct eyebrow whitish, the former obscured by 

 black hair-Uke shaft-Hnes ; ear-coverts brown, streaked with ful- 

 vous just behind the eye; cheeks whitish, extending backwards 

 behind the ear-coverts ; throat and fore neck white, separated from 

 each other by a band of sandy buff feathers, barred with darker 

 brown ; sides of the neck buffj' whitish, streaked -with light brown ; 

 rest of under surface creamy white, transversely barred with light 



